[CentOS] Question on SATA DVD using centos 5.1

[Tim Verhoeven]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> On my machine I have
>
>  SATA0: HD
>  SATA1: HD these two drives are set as RAID1
>  SATA2: HD extra
>  SATA3: DVD
>  SATA4: external USB disk
>
>  Snip from dmesg shows the ATAPI device being detected.
>
>  ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xe400 irq 10
>  ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xb60 bmdma 0xe408 irq 10
>  ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
>  ata3.00: ATAPI: PIONEER BD-ROM  BDC-202, 1.01, max UDMA/66
>  ata3.00: configured for UDMA/66
>  ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
>  ata4.00: ATA-7: ST3500630AS, 3.AAC, max UDMA/133
>  ata4.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
>  ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
>
>  sda is HD
>  sdb is HD again RAID1
>  sdc is the HD extra
>  sdd should be hte ATAPI DVD but it ends up being the external USB
>
>  nothing is at sde
>
>  Where might my DVD be?

sdX is used for hard disks (scsi disk). A DVD is not a disk so it is
not listed there. It will probably be defined as sr0.

Anyway, the best way to find out is to install the tool lsscsi using
yum. Here is the example of the output from lsscsi on my laptop :

# lsscsi
[0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST910021AS       4.06  /dev/sda
[4:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4083N 1.08  /dev/sr0

So that should help you indentify your devices.

Regards,
Tim

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